NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Patricija Bredovska with piece No more Business as Usual - If everyone on Earth consumed resources and accumulated waste like we do in Ireland, we would need three Earths to sustain us and maintain how we live, NCAD Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

• A jury in the High Court civil case against Conor McGregor found that he did sexually assault Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel in 2018.
• Met Éireann issued a number of weather warnings ahead of the arrival of Storm Bert tonight, including Status Red warnings for Cork and Galway. 
• A body was found in the search for a missing swimmer off the coast of Galway.
• The Garda Commissioner issued a directive to gardaí to not comment on “matters of a political nature” during the election after a garda group issued a strongly worded criticism of new discipline regulations.
• Paschal Donohoe said that he and Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary are not “friends” after it emerged they had dinner together.
• Mary Lou McDonald defended her party’s proposal to commission an independent review of RTÉ’s news coverage of the conflict in Gaza by saying the public service broadcaster should be the “gold standard” of journalism.
• The Taoiseach and Tánaiste said they would execute an arrest warrant if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered the country.
• The man arrested in connection with the Creeslough explosion was released without charge. 
• Independent Ireland pledged to freeze “green taxes”, create a Department of Efficiency and subsidise rental accommodation for front-line workers as part of its general election manifesto. It also promised to expand light rail services to all 26 counties.

INTERNATIONAL

Passengers at Gatwick Airport near Crawley, West Sussex, where flights were cancelled and delayed after a suspected prohibited item was found in luggage. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#ENGLAND: Gatwick Airport closed to new passengers for more than four hours today as Sussex Police deployed its bomb disposal unit because of “the discovery of a suspected prohibited item in luggage”.

#LASO: Six tourists died following suspected methanol poisoning in a backpacker hostel in Laos. 

#USA: The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case ordered that sentencing be delayed indefinitely, a legal win for the US president-elect as he prepares to return to the White House.

#LEBANON: Four Italian UN peacekeepers were injured by suspected Hezbollah rocket fire in Lebanon today.

PARTING SHOT

CILLIAN MURPHY HAS bought a cinema in Kerry that he used to visit as a child.

Murphy, from Cork, 48, and his wife, artist Yvonne McGuinness, will refurbish The Phoenix Cinema in Dingle next year.

The venue, which has been used as a movie theatre and dance hall, had been in operation for more than 100 years, and had been on the market for three years before McGuinness and Murphy bought the building.